From previous thread:
I think you're mixing easy with predictable, confusing intentional design with lack of challenge. Knowing what enemies will do and being able to subvert that means your objectives and intent, not focusing on dealing damage and clearing maps, means your objective and intent is different from a game like XCOM or Battle Brothers.
Given that this seems like a puzzle game as much as it is a strategy game, perfectly planned tactics to avoid damage and not lose mechs is where the challenge lies. Figuring how to mitigate damage, how to move and stun enemies while not doing the same to your own mechs, manipulating the map to the best of your abilities.
A lot of the challenge/frustration in strategy games comes from reacting to the unpredictable actions of enemies.
Oh, I understand and appreciate the intention of system but I am talking about the difficulty itself (
degree of player vs enemy strength). For example, trying to mitigate the damage is significantly easier if the enemy happens to be a slime rather than fire-breathing dragon. I was just hoping that the developer accounted for significant advantage granted by having predictable enemy that does not readjust to player's actions.
I've been looking at some Hard mode streams and although I have admittedly watched only part of the gameplay, enemy spawn per turn seems to be up to three (which is same as player units, and also can be blocked!) and
it's very much possible to counter all threat every turn assuming no player mistakes. Game is obviously designed this way because potential for snowball... however, Into The Breach is fundamentally a "survive" defense game, so I would have appreciated if the enemy started ramping up as the number of turn required to survive decreases rather than the bugs constantly spawning at uniform rate. The victory condition is NOT binary, so the fact that you cannot perfectly clean up all the threats in some late-game missions would have allowed players to make decisions on what to prioritize - rather than how to mop up enemies - to ensure success of their primary objective.
Obviously normal mode should allow players to have perfect run if they pull of perfect tactics... and I understand my opinion that the game should have some sort of challenge mode that is centered around damage
mitigation rather than damage
elimination is highly personal as well, since I am hardcore gamer when it comes to turn-based tactics.
Also would love to be proven wrong! The developer does not deserve my skepticism.
Edit: As a side note, length of each mission seem to be too short to allow the bugs to ramp up properly even after player mistake, especially since player is guaranteed one free re-roll per mission.
